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Photographs, 1851-1919 (inclusive)

by: Brewster, William, 1851-1919

Publication date: 1851

Topics: Ornithology, Brewster, William, 1851-1919 -- Photographs

Collection: biodiversity; Harvard_University; museumofcomparativezoology

Contributor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

Language: English

Volume: New England

Item Size: 122.3M

ca. 300 images

Includes portraits of Brewster, his family and friends, views of his Brattle Street household, bird habitats and Lake Umbagog, Maine, and of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Many photographs were taken by Brewster's associate, Robert Alexander Gilbert

William Brewster Papers, Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Ornithologist. Graduated from Cambridge High School in 1869. Conducted ornithological expeditions to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Colorado, West Virginia and North Carolina mountains, South Carolina and Georgia lowlands, Florida and to Trinidad. Curator of mammals and birds, Boston Society of Natural History, from 1880 to 1887. Curator of mammals and birds, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, from 1885 to 1900. For additional biographical information see: Bird-Lore (1919) 21, pp. 277-286

Unpublished finding aid in repository

Abstract: Includes portraits of Brewster, his family and friends, views of his Brattle Street household, bird habitats and Lake Umbagog, Maine, and of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Many photographs were taken by Brewster's associate, Robert Alexander Gilbert.